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By Mitch Berg
I drove by one of the “No Kings” “protests” on Saturday – a little one, on Yankee Doodle Road near Pilot Knob, in what probably passes for “downtown” in Eagan.
It almost fooled me. There were a whole bunch of flags – all of them American, none of them Palestinian or BLM. They didn’t completely fool me – the average age was probably 65, and they all had ELCA hair, so I had them made before I actually read any of their signs.
But it got me thinking – perhaps Big Left spent some time getting the “No Kings” people to try act a little less crazy? Maybe they figured out that Palestinian flags and guys in assless chaps aren’t polling well in the provinces?
I wasn’t wrong:
What came next was the real kicker. When Austin asked about the protest’s peaceful vibe, the woman didn’t hesitate. “We’ve all been told to be peaceful,” she explained matter-of-factly. “We’ve had training on how to be peaceful and to deescalate.”
Training.
As in organized, structured instruction on how to behave at a protest.
Austin didn’t get the chance to follow up on who exactly provided this training or which organization bankrolled it, but the admission alone punctures the myth that these movements are leaderless and organic. When the protester was asked to show her Antifa-marked sign more clearly, she refused. Funny how that works.
If true? No, it’s not something to welcome: Big Left is trying to cater to the less-insane Democrat constituency, whatever and wherever it is. They’ll be sliding into the same hungry maw as all the insane ones. They will be assimilated, or disposed of when able.
October 21st, 2025 at 7:41 am
yes they were instructed/trained
it was all spelled out on the INDIVISIBLE/MN web site that has been coordinating the MN phase of the protest since at least August
Indivisible is an innocuous sounding front for George Soros’ Open Society & Tides funding, in fact they recently received $3million from Soros
Indivisible has been busy recruiting outstate bluehairs for the last couple months – they filled a bus with them from the Cambridge/North Branch/Forest Lake area on saturday and shiped them to sequentially to 4 different protests in the twincities.
October 22nd, 2025 at 6:10 am
Two of my conservative friends found an ad to recruit no kings protesters on Craigslist. They were promised rides to and from the event in luxury motor coaches, equipped with free wi-fi and dvd players. Pay was $275, cash, for the day, plus lunch. They signed up with their conservative wives, just to get the money. They claimed that the bus was full of mostly late 60s, 70s women. Six of them told one of my friend’s wife that they, too, just came for the money. All of them thought the protests were stupid, but were amused by just how stupid most of the participants were.